Smart Contracts, a Law + Technology Perspective by Thibault Schrepel

29 October 2022

This study, released by the European Commission, is quite an interesting read. It tries to make sense of blockchain(s), smart contracts and their legal implication in the current 'Digital Single Market'.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/smart-contracts-and-digital-single-market-through-lens-law-plus-technology-approach

European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, Schrepel, T., Smart contracts and the digital single market through the lens of a “law + technology” approach, Publications Office of the European Union, 2021, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2759/562748

Additional reading

Smart contracts in the EU Data Act (Alexander Schmalenberger, TaylorWessing)
Now, this is absolutely huge / controversial. It imposes smart contracts (that make data available) to be stoppable. So... basically, all oracles *shall* be redesigned (but how?) or else they will infringe the law. #dataact @CoinDesk @Cointelegraph @decryptmedia pic.twitter.com/AZMOoKTsi6
— Thibault Schrepel (@ProfSchrepel) February 25, 2022